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Books by heinrich harrer5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() In 1951, soon after the Chinese Communists invaded Tibet, Harrer left. ![]() Harrer stayed for five years, eventually becoming a friend and tutor to the teenage Dalai Lama. Two years later after an exhausting journey on foot over 65 mountain passes and across the Tibetan plateau in the dead of winter they arrived in the forbidden city of Lhasa, where they were warmly welcomed. In 1944, Harrer and a fellow POW escaped and headed up into the mountains of Tibet. Then World War II broke out, and Harrer and all other German and Austrian nationals in India were rounded up and imprisoned by the British. In 1939, a young climber named Heinrich Harrer, who had achieved fame for being a member of the first team to scale the north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps, traveled to India on a climbing expedition. ![]()
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